{"id":8938,"date":"2002-08-17T12:22:18","date_gmt":"2002-08-17T17:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2002\/08\/17\/god-particle\/"},"modified":"2002-08-17T12:22:18","modified_gmt":"2002-08-17T17:22:18","slug":"god-particle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2002\/08\/god-particle\/","title":{"rendered":"God particle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The article <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/technology\/0,1282,54507,00.html\">Racing to the<br \/>\n&#8220;God Particle&#8221;<\/a> is contains the following:<br \/>&#8220;<font color=#3333ff>Dubbed the<br \/>\n&#8220;God particle&#8221; by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman, the Higgs boson<br \/>\nis a controversial particle believed to bestow mass on all other<br \/>\nparticles.<\/font>&#8220;<br \/>and<br \/>&#8220;<font color=#3333ff>The Higgs boson is interesting<br \/>\nbecause it is the only reasonable explanation we have for the origin of<br \/>\nmass,<\/font>&#8221; say Dave Rainwater a researcher at FermiLab.<\/p>\n<p>It is<br \/>\ninteresting that some think they need a particle that bestows mass on other<br \/>\nparticles, it reminds me of the &#8220;First Cause&#8221; argument in a way. Speaking from<br \/>\nseverely limited scientific knowledge than what would bestow mass on the Higgs<br \/>\nboson, or do they think it is like God, where in God essence and existence are<br \/>\nabsolutely one in the same. I am not going to make the fundamentalists mistake<br \/>\nwhere theology and science are or could be at odds; truth is truth and can never<br \/>\nconflict. We just need to be prudent in not confusing theories with<br \/>\ntruth.<\/p>\n<p>No I wonder, that if a physicist doesn&#8217;t believe in the &#8220;God<br \/>\nParticle&#8221; does that make him a &#8220;Particle Atheist.<\/p>\n<p>And in the spirit of<br \/>\nbad Scott Hahn puns, everyone know that Mass is bestowed by Jesus through the<br \/>\npriest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article Racing to the &#8220;God Particle&#8221; is contains the following:&#8220;Dubbed the &#8220;God particle&#8221; by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman, the Higgs boson is a controversial particle believed to bestow&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}